Kaleidoscope

Fearlessly the ageless come
A silhouette against the sun
they hear no lies
and seek not justice

An iron tower sways and bends
as work of man falls prey to wind
the winter calls
yet who will answer

Gliding through the mist of night
I won my place beside the light
and gained their love
but lost my name

Cast into the world again
I catch a glimpse of childhood's end
for earth below
a new beginning

And somewhere in the frozen waste
a voice calls out "we must make haste"
the visions fade-
so here we are:
quietly talking
about the lifeforce within us all

The painted faces overhead
proclaim the truth in things unsaid
eternity
the only freedom

Then an angel, then the son
cries "lo" and we have just begun
there is no end
to revelation

I drift through ever changing scenes
and realize it's all a dream
and light another cigarette
a seperate reality...
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Bruce Notes:
This song was written around the summer of 1977, which would mean that we were around 19. I remember thinking of the opening line (the part that's in 3/4.) I was alone in the house (which was rare in those days). I was having a good day and I managed to catch it in a bottle. That's what writing music is all about, really. The part in the odd time signatures (in the intro just after the bells ring) was written as a demonstration for a friend. I was trying to explain that 4/4 time was only one choice of many, despite the fact that virtually every measure of music that you hear on the radio (or in all of pop music really) is in 4/4 time. I jotted this little exercise down for us to play through in an attempt to help him break out of the 4/4 mold. I decided to weave it into the song I was writing at the time, which turned out to be Kaleidoscope.

R. Mageddon Notes:
Written, as Brooce says, in the Summer of 1977. I lived in one of those apartments where the bed pulls out of the wall into the ONE ROOM. Brooce and I had been exploring alternate musical forms and extended works for some time by now, and Kaleidoscope was actually more mainstream than our recent efforts at the time. We thought it was "commercial." For whatever reason, Brooce and I saw Kaleidoscope as significant, and I look back on it as the catalyst for the intense productivity that was to follow.

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very creative!!